Device for distributing fertilizers



(No ModeL) W. T. PEGUES.

DEVICE FOR DISTRIBUTING FERTILIZERS. N0. 361,543.

PatentedAprLIQ, 1887.

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WILLIAM THOMAS PEGUES, OF MANSFIELD, LOUISIANA.

DEVICE FOR DISTRIBUTING FERTILIZERS SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 361,543, dated April 19, 1887.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM THOMAS Thomas, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Mansfield, in the parish of De Soto and State of Louisiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Distributing OompostManure, of which the following isaspecification, reference being bad therein to the accompanying drawlugs.

My invention relates to improvements in devices for distributing compost manure, and particularly that class of machines of thiskind wherein a revolving spiked cylinder located at the rear end of the machine operates to distribute the fertilizer either broadcast or in one or more drills or furrows.

My invention is designed to furnish a construction particularly adapted to subserve this purpose in an efficient manner, and without danger of breaking the parts of the machine or clogging it during operation.

Referring to the accompanying drawings illustrative of my invention, Figure 1 represents a plan view, partly broken away, of a distributing cart or wagon provided at its rear end with my improvements. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the same, and Fig. 3 is a central longitudinal section, also partly broken away.

Similar letters of reference indicate'similar parts throughout the several views.

A indicates the body of the wagon or cart, said body having a gradual inclination toward the rear, as represented in Fig. 3. The bottom of the wagon is slotted, as shown, thereby leaving a series of subdivisions, 1), having spring-board or flexible qualities. Above these divisions is located a cylinder, B, provided with a number of spikes or pin'projections, 0 0. These pins are so located upon the cylinder that during their revolution they will not come opposite the slots in the bottom-boardof the vehicle, but ordinarily will just clear the spring-board divisions.

The hubs of the cylinder are extended outwardly and connect with the wheels D D, which operate the cylinder. To these wheels are attached, on their inner sides, annular flanges EE, said flanges forming band-pulleys, around which pass the bands F F. These bands pass also around pulleys G G, located upon the outer ends of a worm-shaft, H, located at the end of the vehicle and below the same. This wormshaft is located in a trough, L, and is right and left handed, as shown in Fig. 1, so as to feed any material in the trough toward the center through the opening M at the bottom of the trough. It will be seen that this worm is of a peculiar construction, having the conveyerflanges meeting about the middle of its length in an obtuseangle. It will also be seen that the trough in which this roller is journaled is adapted to be removed from the vehicle, so that the latter may be used for other purposes than carrying fertilizer.

The parts being constructed as described, the operation of my invention is as follows: Motion is transmitted from the wheels D D dur ing progress of the vehicle to the spiked cylinder B and to the worm-shaft H. The compost manure or other fertilizer therefore is fed underneath the cylinder out into the trough, and thence into the central opening, M, through which it falls in a furrow along the field.

Should any lumps or stones be present in the fertilizer, or if it should accidentally be fed in more than the normal quantity to the cylinder B, it would nevertheless pass beneath said cylinder by reason of the fact that the divided ends of the bottom-board would spring downwardly, thereby permitting the material to pass. \Vithout this provision the teeth of the cylinder are liable to be broken or its operation entirelyinterrupted until the impediment can be removed. The teeth or pins upon the spiked cylinder may also, if desired, be made somewhat elastic, so as to permit of the passage of stones or other hard bodies by them without breakage. Y

My device may be employed in connection with either a two-wheeled or a four-wheeled vehicle, and may be removed at will when such vehicle be desired for other uses, as the wheels D D constitute no part whatever of the running-gear proper, and are entirely separate and distinct therefrom.

When the device is not in use, the vehicle is supported upon carrying-wheels attached to separate axles, as N. The cylinder may be made of wood or other'material, and the spikes placed in alternate rows either in an upright or an inclined position, and running lengthwise of the cylinder, or in spiral form about the same.

above the said slotted portion, atrough, as de- 15 scribed, secured to the said vehicle and below the same at its rear end and provided with the bot-tom opening, and the worm, as shown, journaled in the said trough and having the right and left flange meeting above the said 20 bottom opening, and the whole geared and op-' erated substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM THOMAS PEGUES.

Vitnesses:

YELL. VERTON PEYTON, WILLIAM KEENER SUTHERLIN. 

